April 30, 2010

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Returning to normal for India’s third largest software services firm Wipro -- and peers like Infosys and Tata Consultancy Services -- means not just recovering sales but also a return to the days of high staff attrition and wage pressures.Wipro saw attrition rocket to 17.1 per cent for the quarter, up from 8.4 per cent during April to June 2009. The company added net 5,325 employees during the quarter, bringing the total headcount to 108,071, and said wage hikes had cut into margins.

Wipro Ltd said quarterly profit jumped 21 per cent to Rs 12.1 billion ($269 million), as rising global demand for outsourcing spread from financial services to lagging sectors like technology and telecommunications.“We have seen another strong quarter of broad based, volume led growth,” Chairman Azim Premji said in a statement. “The business environment is returning to normal.”

Revenue for the January to March quarter was Rs 69.8 billion ($1.6 billion), 8 per cent higher than a year earlier. Wipro also recommended a dividend of Rs 6 a share and an offer of two bonus shares for every three.

Infosys Technologies plans to give the pride of place to foreign faces in its sales and consultation teams in a radical hiring shift that the company believes will help land lucrative deals and boost its image as a global IT powerhouse.Infosys will hire nearly 1,000 foreigners this year to push its sales and consultation practice as the company turns its gaze on high-margin consulting and transformational deals, said chief financial officer V Balakrishnan.Overseas markets contribute nearly 98% of the country’s second-largest software services exporter’s business, but the so-called front-end workforce has just 5-6% foreign members.

April 21, 2010

Making people look and feel beautiful can be a rewarding career. Cosmetologists style hair, perform facials and groom nails for clients.Regency Beauty Institute is the first Cosmetology school in Colorado that offer vocational certificate programs in cosmetology.Students in this program study all aspects of cosmetology, including hair styling, nails and skin care. After completion of the program, students should be prepared to take the Florida licensing exam for cosmetologists and begin working as professional hair stylists or cosmetologists.

Students learn skin care techniques such as hair removal and makeup application. They also learn manicure and pedicure techniques and advanced skills in hair styling. Courses cover leadership, management and communication skills for those interested in operating their own salons. Students also become familiar with Florida's rules and regulations regarding cosmetology practices.

Students learn through lecture and lab classes and begin their training by practicing techniques on mannequins. Later, students work in the college's salon, where they perform services on clients. In addition to textbooks, students are responsible for purchasing their own basic supplies, including nail, skin and hair kits.

April 13, 2010

James Gosling has announced via his new blog that he resigned from Oracle a week ago (April 2nd).Generally credited as the inventor of the Java programming language, Gosling created the original design for Java and implemented the first compiler and virtual machine for it. Gosling, who will be 55 this year, had been with Sun Microsystems since 1984. Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems in January this year, following five months of investigation by the European Commission's Competition Commissioner.

Prior to joining Sun Gosling wrote a version of emacs (gosmacs), and while at Carnegie Mellon University he built a multi-processor version of Unix, as well as a number of compilers and mail systems.He doesn't yet have a new job, describing himself as "blissfully unemployed" on his bio. On his blog he states "I don't know what I'm going to do next, other than take some time off before I start job hunting. "

Adobe might be putting a brave face on for its battle against Apple, but the company quietly admitted in its latest quarterly filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that if Apple continues to block Flash from both the iPhone and iPad, it could be facing some trouble.

"To the extent new releases of operating systems or other third-party products, platforms or devices, such as the Apple iPhone or iPad, make it more difficult for our products to perform, and our customers are persuaded to use alternative technologies, our business could be harmed," the company wrote in its Risk Factors section of the 10-Q filing. Bloomberg first reported news of the filing.

It should be noted that Risk Factors don't necessarily mean that Adobe's business is being hurt by any potential issue. The Risk Factors section of an SEC filing is meant to inform investors that there are certain market conditions that, depending on the outcome, could have a negative effect on a company's bottom line. Sometimes those risk factors are extremely specific and likely to happen, while other times, they can be very broad and unlikely to occur.

But Adobe's decision to add the iPhone and iPad to its risk factors is awfully telling. Steve Jobs has made it clear that his company is waging a war against Flash. And as Adobe points out, the more ubiquitous the iPhone and iPad become, the greater the chance that Flash will lose some of its market share online. That, it seems, is what's making Adobe run a little scared.

April 1, 2010

There's been some concern amongst GlassFish users since Oracle's takeover of Sun Microsystems closed in January this year. Oracle possibly compounded the problem when it began to position the GlassFish application server as a "departmental" server, whilst WebLogic remained targeted at enterprise customers requiring performance and scalability. This is a similar strategy to that used by IBM with its two WebSphere Application Server flavours (Community Edition which is based on Apache Geronimo, and WebSphere Application Server). But many suspected that this would result in "enterprise" features, such as clustering support, being dropped from GlassFish. Perhaps reacting to this James Gosling, now CTO of Oracle's client software group, pointed out to an audience at the TheServerSide Java Symposium in Las Vegas that the GlassFish application server provided the first implementation of EE 6, and that the server is used in data centres and downloaded about a million times a month.Another area of concern was around licensing. Oracle have stated that they will continue to develop GlassFish as open source software (mostly under GPL/CDDL as now), and will continue to offer the product as an open source offering called GlassFish Server Open Source Edition. In addition, Oracle will offer a commercial distribution (Oracle GlassFish Server) which will include closed source add-ons and full support from Oracle, in much the same way as Sun did prior to the acquisition.